202 HYMENOPTEKA. 



segment transversely furrowed, more strongly so towards the middle, the apex oblique. 

 Abdomen longer than the head and thorax united, with patches of silvery pubescence 

 along the sides and on the pygidium. Legs stout, longish, pruinose ; the coxae thickly 

 covered with silky pubescence ; the tibia? thickly spined; the long spur of the hind 

 tibiae not half the length of the metatarsus. The basal nervure is almost interstitial ; 

 the anal nervure in hind wings is received in front of the cubital nervure. 



Species 47 and 48 have deep black bodies and more or less reddish legs. 



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47. Pompilus admirationis. 



Niger, coxis femoribusque posterioribus rufis ; alis fusco-violaceis. $ • 

 Long. 17 millim. 



Hob. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 



Head opaque, alutaceous, transverse behind ; the eyes slightly diverging beneath ; 

 the ocelli in a triangle, the hinder ones separated from each other by a somewhat less 

 distance than they are from the eyes ; vertex with a narrow furrow ; clypeus rounded 

 at the sides, the apex almost transverse. Thorax opaque, alutaceous ; the pronotum 

 shorter than the head, bluntly angled. Scutellum concave, not narrowed towards the 

 apex. Median segment with a gradual slope to the apex from the base, the basal half 

 furrowed down the middle. Abdomen a little longer than the head and thorax united ; 

 smoother and more shining than the thorax; the apex bearing stiff black and rufous 

 hairs ; the pygidium rough. Legs very long ; the tibial spines short, thick ; the long 

 spur of the hinder tibiae one-third the length of the metatarsus ; the claws sub-bifid ; 

 the fore tarsi without comb-spines. Wings longer than the body ; the radial cellule 

 long and narrow, acute at the base and apex; the second and third cubital cellules at 

 top subequal ; the first transverse cubital nervure is curved, the second straight, the 

 third bluntly elbowed below ; the first recurrent nervure is received near the apex of 

 the cellule, the second near the apical fourth ; the basal nervure is interstitial ; the 

 anal nervure in hind wings is received in front of the cubital nervure. 



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 w 48. PompilllS exactUS. (Tab. XL figg. 23, head ; 23 a, wing.) 



Niger, linea pronoti flava, pedibus rufis ; alis hyalinis, apice fumatis. 

 Long. 10-12 millim. 



Hob. Mexico, Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaunter). 



Antennae short, covered with a microscopic down, the third joint distinctly longer 

 than the fourth. Face elongate ; the eyes converging above ; the hinder ocelli 

 separated from each other by about the same distance they are from the eyes ; the 

 apex of the clypeus almost transverse ; the labrum projecting. Prothorax about as 

 long as the head ; the apex rounded. The median segment gradually rounded to the 



